Example sentences of "do for him " in BNC.

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1 In this way , because the despot has taken onto himself the attributes of the community , work — which was in fact done for him — appeared as work by him , and he appeared as the creator of wealth for the community .
2 That 's what done for him . ’
3 After what Clive had done for him , he would be forever in his debt .
4 Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army .
5 I tell you this : if anyone says to this mountain , ‘ Be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea , ’ and has no inward doubts , but believes that what he says is happening , it will be done for him ’ ( Mark 11:23 ) .
6 Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement .
7 The stink assailed his nostrils , bringing back memories of that last visit and what it had done for him .
8 For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion .
9 If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation .
10 But then , he did n't know what she 'd done for him and was going to do .
11 It was the law of joint enterprise in homicide which had done for him , the same law which had hanged Derek Bentley .
12 His mum spoilt him a lot , he was the youngest , and was used to having everything done for him .
13 GUIL : It 's all done for him .
14 First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him .
15 So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship .
16 This is what Sandro had done for him .
17 All looked in order , but there had been no laundry done for him lately .
18 I knew then you 'd done for him all right . ’
19 Done for him ?
20 But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man .
21 It would n't have done for him to see me there .
22 That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle .
23 There was nothing he could have asked of her that she would not have done for him .
24 ‘ And after all I 've done for him — he 's deserted me .
25 He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ?
26 The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system .
27 Everything is done for him .
28 Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs .
29 unwound himself and you could tell his two years , what it had done for him .
30 with the request to have that back thing done for him
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